Online service to share funeral details by phone

A new online product has been launched to enable funeral directors to provide their clients with a new way to share details of their funeral services – via a simple, shareable mobile phone funeral notice.

Unlike any other online product, aFuneralNotice.co.uk provides an easy-to-use platform for creating elegantly designed and universally shareable mobile phone notices. Each notice contains all the details families need about their forthcoming funeral service, including time, date and venue information, a photograph of the deceased and an interactive location map. Notices are also fully customisable to display the funeral director’s logo.

Once a new notice has been set up, the funeral director can then send it directly to their client’s mobile phone by text message. Creating a notice is quick and requires no technical knowledge.

Having spent many years working as a funeral director himself, company founder Ash Govind said: “aFuneralNotice.co.uk was designed with bereaved families at heart. With most people now preferring to receive and access information via smartphone, we saw a way to save hours of time and stress, by sending all the information needed direct to their personal mobile device.

“aFuneralNotice.co.uk is such an easy-to-use platform, but its impact is huge, easing the burden of calling sometimes hundreds of people, retelling the tragedy of the deceased’s passing. Of course, close family will always be called personally. But now a simple text can quickly be forwarded to large numbers.”

In addition to easing the burden of stress for bereaved families, aFuneralNotice.co.uk also provides a number of opportunities for funeral directors who are looking to improve their levels of care and service for their clients.

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SAIF

The National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors (SAIF) is a trade association whose members are all independent funeral directors. A large proportion of our members’ funeral homes have been run by the same family for generations.